Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language aimed at large
applications, especially for distributed, highly available systems. Many
Erlang programs of today are among the largest applications written in
any functional programming language.

These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional
programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale
and suggest new problems for the research community to solve.

Erlang with its vast set of libraries (including for example a
distributed realtime database) has been available as open source for
some years now, facilitating the spreading of the language as well as
cooperation with academic research.

This workshop will bring together the academic and the industrial
functional programming communities, enabling the participants to draw
lessons from the experiences so far, and to identify research problems
relevant to the practice of functional programming.